You'll find a few in amusement parks and tourist destinations around the world, from Orlando to Rhyl.
With fewer public amusements and fewer outlets for conspicuous consumption, local bling tends toward building a mosque or madrasah exactly what we, and they, most need.
At Jenkinson's Beach and Pavilion, the weather has meant fewer people in the amusement park, fewer crowds to watch the Elvis impersonators parachuting out of planes, and miserable business for local shops.
But the trade-off for a few minutes of amusement is that our recycling bin is overflowing with catalogs from Land's End, L.L. Bean, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware and the other usual suspects.
When "The Blood of the Lamb," De Vries's most autobiographical novel, was published, the year after Emily's death, it came as a shock to his readers, accustomed by now to a few hours of amusement.
But the trade-off for a few minutes of amusement is that our recycling bin is overflowing with catalogs from Lands' End, L.L. Bean, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware and the other usual suspects.
** When "The Blood of the Lamb," De Vries's most autobiographical novel, was published, the year after Emily's death, it came as a shock to his readers, accustomed by now to a few hours of amusement.
The photographs, taken by contracted photographers to document one of the nation's few government-run amusement parks, have long been housed at the Westchester County's Archives and Records Center in Elmsford, but as a result of a state grant last month, they will be scanned so they can be seen at www.westchesterarchives.com.
The pageant's popularity may seem offensive at first blush, given how blatantly it seems to use the physical difference of a few for the amusement of the many.
